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The Great Recoil
Politics after Populism and Pandemic
- Verso Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 24,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-050-1
EAN 9781788730501
In this era of economic crisis, social distress, and ecological threats, the term "populism" has come to sum up anxiety about our political future. While it is mostly associated with rightwing demagogues such as Donald Trump, Matteo Salvini and Jair Bolsonaro, various figures of the "post-crash Left", such as Bernie Sanders, Jeremy Corbyn and Pablo ...
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Feminist Antifascism
Counterpublics of the Common
- Verso Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-1-83976-116-4
EAN 9781839761164
In this exciting, innovative work, Polish feminist philosopher Ewa Majewska maps the creation of feminist counterpublics around the world-spaces of protest and ideas, community and common struggle, that can challenge the emergence of fascist states as well as Western democratic "public spheres" populated by atomized, individual subjects. Drawing from Eastern Europe and the Global South, ...
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China in One Village
The Story of One Town and the Changing World
- Verso Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 24,85 €
ISBN 978-1-83976-177-5
EAN 9781839761775
After a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and literary scholar in Beijing, Liang Hong started visiting her rural hometown in landlocked Hebei province. What she found was an extended family torn apart by the seismic changes in Chinese society, and a village hollowed-out by emigration, neglect, and ...
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- Verso Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 16,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-310-6
EAN 9781788733106
Four siblings. Two summer houses. One terrible secret.When a dispute over her parents' will grows bitter, Bergljot is drawn back into the orbit of the family she fled twenty years before. Her mother and father have decided to leave two island summer houses to her sisters, disinheriting the two eldest siblings from the most meaningful ...
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- Verso Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-632-9
EAN 9781788736329
The world is out of joint, so much so that disobeying should be an urgent act for everyone. In this provocative essay, Frederic Gros explores the roots of political obedience, social conformity, economic subjection, respect for authorities, constitutional consensus. Examining the various styles of obedience provides tools to study, invent and induce new forms of ...
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- Verso Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-955-9
EAN 9781788739559
Capitalism has transformed the world and increased our productivity, but at the cost of enormous human suffering. Our shared values equality and fairness, democracy and freedom, community and solidarity can both provide the basis for a critique of capitalism, and help to guide us towards a socialist and democratic society. In this elegant book, Erik ...
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- Verso Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-83976-090-7
EAN 9781839760907
Since 2016, the UK has been in a crisis of its own making: but this is not the fault of Brexit but of a larger problem of our politics. The status of political parties, the mainstream media, public experts and officials have all been disrupted. Along the way, there have been shocking and exhilarating events: ...
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- Verso Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 13,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-677-5
EAN 9781786636775
In the 19th century, English textile workers responded to the introduction of new tecnologies on the factory floor by smashing them to bits. For years 'the Luddites' roamed the English countryside, practicing drills and maneuvers that they would later deploy on unassuming machines. The movement has been derided by scholars as a backwards-looking and ultimately ...
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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-859-0
EAN 9781788738590
Jacques Derrida was one of most influential philosophers of the 20th century. In The Politics of Friendship he explores the idea of friendship and its political consequences, past and future in order to explore invention of a radically new friendship, of a deeper and more inclusive democracy.
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Mutual Aid
Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)
- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-83976-212-3
EAN 9781839762123
Around the world, people are faced with crisis after crisis, from the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change-induced fires, floods, and storms to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, brutal immigration enforcement, endemic gender violence, and severe wealth inequality. As governments fail to respond to-or actively engineer-each crisis, ordinary people are finding bold and innovative ways ...
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Democracy is in crisis. In every major company it has been stole by elites or in the hands of strong men. In democracy's name we see a raft of policies that spread inequality and xenophobia worldwide. It is clear that democracy - the principle of government by and for the people - is not living ...
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Chavs
The Demonization of the Working Class
- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-83976-092-1
EAN 9781839760921
In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. In this acclaimed investigation, Owen Jones explores how the working class has gone from "salt of the earth" to "scum of the earth." Exposing the ignorance and prejudice at the heart of the chav caricature, he portrays a far more complex ...
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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-815-6
EAN 9781788738156
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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-248-2
EAN 9781788732482
The Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the New World. Having delved deep into the gray obscurity of official eighteenth-century records in Spanish, English, and French, Julius S. Scott has written a powerful "history from below." Scott follows the spread ...
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The Care Manifesto
The Politics of Compassion
- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-1-83976-096-9
EAN 9781839760969
The Care Manifesto puts care at the heart of the debates of our current crisis: from intimate care-childcare, healthcare, elder care-to care for the natural world. We live in a world where carelessness reigns, but it does not have to be this way. The Care Manifesto puts forth a vision for a truly caring world.The ...
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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-985-6
EAN 9781788739856
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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 38,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-784-5
EAN 9781788737845
A history of the IDF that argues that Israel is a nation formed by its army. The Israeli army, officially named the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), was established in 1948 by David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, who believed that 'the whole nation is the army'. In his mind, the IDF was to be an ...
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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78663-756-7
EAN 9781786637567
What is the "populist moment" and what does it mean for the left?We are currently witnessing in Western Europe a "populist moment" that signals the crisis of neoliberal hegemony. The central axis of the political conflict will be between right- and left-wing populism. By establishing a frontier between "the people" and "the oligarchy," a left-populist ...
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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-661-9
EAN 9781788736619
A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first century at the hands of the Romans, Israeli historian Shlomo Sand argues that most modern Jews descend from converts, whose native lands ...
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- Verso Books, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-733-3
EAN 9781788737333
Decades of violence and chaos have generated a political and intellectual hysteria-ranging from imperial atavism to paranoia about invading or hectically breeding Muslim hordes-that has affected even the most intelligent in Anglo-America. In Bland Fanatics, Pankaj Mishra examines this hysteria and its fantasists, taking on its arguments and the atmosphere in which it has festered ...
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